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San Luis, New Mexico

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Cuba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87053. It lies near Bosque Grande Mesa. The Survey maps it on the San Luis quadrangle. 32 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,243 feet above sea level.

San Luis within Sandoval County

Population over time

2 figures

San Luis fell from 59 to 32 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201059
202032-27 (-46%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of San Luis in 2012, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRio Puerco Field OfficeSAN LUIS TWINS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandoval County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Luis in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2008Flash FloodSan Luis$5,000Water and debris pouring onto U.S. route 550 at mile marker 48 near the Dragon Fly area.
September 2022Flash FloodSan Luis-An unnamed road flooded approximately one-half mile east of Torreon Wash and one-mile west of Tinnian Road.

Every storm recorded in Sandoval County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cabezon4.6 miles19
LaVentana10.8 miles19
Guadalupe11.1 miles20
Torreon11.7 miles18
Casa Salazar14.2 miles18
Deer Creek Landing15.2 miles18
Gilman15.6 miles18
Cañon16.8 miles20

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on San LuisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6119260The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 915895. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.